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How Lyme Disease Affects the Immune System
Lyme disease is like no other bacterial infection. With most bacterial infections, you expect to take an antibiotic and be over the infection within a week to 10 days. Despite treatment, however, many people with Lyme disease often end up with more serious, widespread infection. Borrelia burgdorferi: An odd bacterium The Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete causes [...]
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Don’t let the name fool you. Whether it’s Lyme, Lime Disease, or Lymes Disease, this infectious disease is nothing to sneeze (or scratch) at. Several Ixodes species of ticks are known to carry the Lyme bacteria in the U.S., mostly in the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest, and all over Canada. An infected tick is called [...]
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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